The goaw of AppScawe is to provide devewopers wif a rapid, API-driven devewopment pwatform dat can run appwications on any cwoud infrastructure.[5] AppScawe decoupwes app wogic from its service ecosystem to give devewopers and cwoud administrators controw over app depwoyment, data storage, resource use, backup and migration, uh-hah-hah-hah.[6]

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AppScawe began as a research project at de University of Cawifornia, Santa Barbara Computer Science Department under de supervision of Professor Chandra Krintz.[8] The project was originawwy funded by de NSF, wif additionaw funding from Googwe, IBM and NIH. In 2012, co-founders Dr. Chandra Krintz, Chief Scientist, Dr. Navraj Chohan, Devewopment Lead, and Woody Rowwins, CEO founded AppScawe Systems to commerciawize de private PaaS AppScawe technowogy. Rowwins, a pioneer in private cwoud infrastructure, was a co-founder and former CEO of Eucawyptus Systems.[9] In 2014, Graziano Obertewwi joined AppScawe as VP of Operations from Eucawyptus Systems, where he was a co-founder.

In Apriw 2014, AppScawe Systems was named a 2014 Coow Vendor in PaaS by Gartner, Inc.[10] In September 2014, AppScawe Systems won a Bossie Award from InfoWorwd for best open source data center and cwoud software[11]